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Doctor Beverly Cheryl Howard Crusher MD, was an alternate version of Beverly Crusher in the First Splinter timeline.
She served as chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise-D and USS Enterprise-E for many years from 2364 to the 2380s, under Captain Jean-Luc Picard, with brief stints serving as head of Starfleet Medical in 2365 and 2379.
Biography[]
The original divergence event that created the First Splinter was during the 2373 mission against the Borg following the Battle of Sector 001. Picard's history prior to that point was identical to the prime timeline Beverly Crusher. (TNG movie, novelization & comic adaptation: Star Trek: First Contact; ST - Coda novel: Oblivion's Gate)
Aboard the Enterprise-E[]
In 2375, Beverly worked with Dr. Julian Bashir on starbase Deep Space 9 when the Dominion engineered a virus that targeted Vulcans. The cure was found after consulting the notes of a 22nd century Starfleet doctor named Phlox. (ST short story: "Mirror Eyes")
Destiny[]
Beverly briefly left the Enterprise in 2379 to again serve as head of Starfleet Medical when she was captured on the planet Kevratas by the Romulan Sela. Beverly was listed as "Missing: Presumed Dead", but Picard did not believe this to be the case.
Picard and two other former Stargazer crew members, "Pug" Joseph and Carter Greyhorse, traveled to Kevratas and mounted a rescue. Upon her rescue, Picard finally revealed the depths of his feelings for Beverly. Soon after, Beverly left Starfleet Medical and returned to the Enterprise and began a romantic relationship with Picard. (TNG novel: Death in Winter)
- Her absence may have gone through at least early 2380, since there is another doctor serving aboard the Enterprise in the events of the game Star Trek: Elite Force II.
In late 2380, the Borg Collective launched a new offensive against the Federation and the Alpha and Beta quadrants. Beverly assisted in transforming Picard back into Locutus so that he could infiltrate the Borg and stop the creation of a new Borg Queen. Beverly also developed an antigen that worked specifically on a single Queen. (TNG novel: Resistance)
Not long after, Doctor Crusher married Jean-Luc Picard. They decided that Beverly would keep her married name of Crusher so as not to cause confusion. Although Picard was initially hesitant to conceive a child, the two dealt with Jean-Luc's emotional baggage, and conceived a son in December of 2380. (TNG novel: Greater Than the Sum)
When stopping the new Queen failed to cease the Borg invasion, the Enterprise became heavily involved in a number of stellar battles, as the only ship equipped with transphasic torpedoes. With the Starfleet Command admiralty unwilling to risk overuse of the torpedoes, second officer Miranda Kadohata summoned Crusher, Commander Geordi La Forge, and deputy security chief Rennan Konya to a midnight planning and brainstorming session. Although La Forge's and Crusher's previous technological and biological weapons against the Borg were adapted to, the quartet worked on applying the technology from the transphasic torpedoes to their shields and other weapons, but the phasers weren't designed to handle the load.
Crusher was the only one to witness the effects the Borg invasion was having on her husband, who claimed that their war with the Borg would not end without one side being completely obliterated. Crusher became worried at Picard's obsession with eradicating the Borg, including advocating otherwise banned strategies, and sought the council of La Forge. Unable to realize where the line between the Captain's personalities started and ended, they feared they would not realize which Picard was in charge until it was too late. (ST - Destiny novel: Gods of Night)
After the Enterprise engaged three Borg cubes at the Azure Nebula, Doctors Crusher and Tropp worked to repair and save the wounded; at one point, Crusher had to insist that Tropp cease working on a deceased patient so that he could move on to others. One of Crusher's patients was Rennan Konya, brought to her attention by Rymond. Crusher was later on duty when Worf came in with injuries, and Jasminder Choudhury slightly after, and determined that the two had been physically intimate; she agreed to keep the incident discreet. (ST - Destiny novel: Mere Mortals)
In the midst of the crisis, Crusher tried, with little success, to prevent Picard from sinking irretrievably into depression and hopelessness. After the crisis ended and the Borg Collective had been dissolved, Crusher felt his spirit of optimism return as the two embraced on the Bridge. (ST - Destiny novel: Lost Souls)
In late 2382, the Enterprise-E was dispatched to Talar to negotiate and bring the Talarian Republic into the expanded Khitomer Accords. After the diplomatic meeting was poisoned, Doctor Crusher was called in to assess, and chose to utilize the transporter's biofilters to clear the Talarian attendees of the biotoxin. She insisted that Ambassador Endar, Commander-in-Chief Ronzel, and the others remain in Sickbay for monitoring and recovery for a few days. When the negotiations resumed, Beverly was present in case of further attacks, despite the Talarians' opinions of females. The protestors did attempt another gambit, release anesthizine gas; Beverely and Jono were kidnapped in the chaos. After awaking in an unknown facility, the two came face to face with the faction of females who were behind the attacks. Jono was suspicious of the Federation and the Enterprise crew due to their previous interactions, and Beverly admitted that it was her and not Captain Picard who had mistakenly diagnosed Jono as the victim of abuse, having known little of their culture at the time. Beverly convinced Jono that he might not fully understand the situation that was leading the women to take these actions, but that was uniquely qualified to negotiate with the protestors, starting with their lead captor, Velet. After getting insight into the plight of the female members of the species and realizing that the Tzenkethi were behind the scenes manipulating the situation, Jono and Beverly realized that Starfleet was being set up to take aggressive action. If military action was used to rescue them, the Typhon Pact could use the situation to show the Federation's hypocrisy, but they were able to convince their release and contacted the Enterprise-E before any strike could take place. (ST - Typhon Pact eBook: The Struggle Within)
The Fall[]
In 2385, Crusher was contacted by her old friend and fellow Doctor Ilona Daret in an effort to get her to the planet Jevalan, where Daret had found evidence President Pro-Tempore Ishan Anjar wasn't who he said he was. In an effort to get there under the radar, Crusher was given the use of the Runabout USS Dordogne and the assistance of Enterprise security officers Kirsten Cruzen and Rennan Konya. When she arrived and met Ilona Daret, he revealed the President Pro Tem was actually a Bajoran named Baras Rodirya, a Cardassian collaborator back in the days of the Occupation of Bajor and murderer of fellow Bajorans. Even with their security measures however, Ishan Anjar or rather Baras Rodirya was eventually made aware of Crusher's presence on Jevalan and the role of Daret in having found information about his past. He dispatched a special ops team, Active Six, to apprehend the Enterprise officers and Daret. If not for the arrival of Thomas Riker, they would have been easily captured. Riker enabled them to avoid being captured until the Enterprise had arrived after receiving information Crusher was compromised.
Following the arrest of Julian Bashir, Beverly requested temporary reassignment as the new chief medical officer of starbase Deep Space 9 (II) until Bashir was reinstated or a replacement was selected. (ST - The Fall novel: Peaceable Kingdoms)
Later in November of 2385, Crusher encountered Katherine Pulaski on DS9, whose recent posting to the Athene Donald brought her to the station. While there, Pulaski met Crusher in the medbay, showing an interest in the new facilities. After Crusher provided Pulaski with a tour, Crusher admitted to Pulaski her dislike of the woman, stating she hadn't liked the way Pulaski had treated Data while on the Enterprise-D. Pulaski agreed with her, acknowledging she may have been simply interested in his workings, as she hadn't encountered anything like him. After Crusher came to terms with Pulaski, the two had a discussion about whether it was a wise decision for Crusher to temporarily leave the Enterprise, after Crusher had mentioned her reasoning for requesting to fill the vacant spot had been to get some space and determine what she wanted to do with herself. Before Pulaski left, Crusher had requested to be kept in the loop about the discoveries of the Athene Donald. This correspondence would be extremely useful later on, when Crusher and Pulaski had to work toward a method of identifying member of the Chain species. The two were successful, allowing the crew of the Athene Donald to identify the perpetrator of an assault on a Chain crew member who had come aboard the ship, while also aiding the crew of DS9 in finding the person responsible for the murder of a member of the People of the Open Sky. After the crisis, Crusher decided it would best to leave her post at DS9 and return to the Enterprise, the talk with Pulaski having prompted Crusher to make a decision about what she had really wanted to do, which was to return to where she felt she belonged. (DS9 novel: The Missing)
Hobbies and interests[]
Beverly has long enjoyed dancing: favored styles include tap and jazz, though she also went a bit more freestyle attending a disco in the holodeck program Crusher 54 where she danced with her holographic partner Mikey. Beverly also has a vivid interest in theatrical arts; she was responsible for putting together several performances on the Enterprise. Beverly is also an accomplished holoprogram writer. In 2371 she wrote a holoprogram to explore her feelings for Jean-Luc Picard after he detailed his glimpses of the future given to him by Q. (TNG comic: "Captain's Pleasure"; TNG episodes: "The Nth Degree", "Frame of Mind", "A Fistful of Datas"; TNG - War and Madness comic: "The First Casualty")
Starfleet service record[]
location | assignment | dates | rank or rate | assignment insignia | rank insignia |
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Starfleet Medical | student officer | 2342-2346 | cadet | ||
USS Prague | junior medical officer | 2346 | ensign | ||
Starbase 32 | assistant chief medical officer | 2346-2354 | lieutenant | ||
Resigned | 2354-2360 | ||||
Starfleet Intelligence | investigator | 2360 | lieutenant commander | ||
USS Enterprise-D | chief medical officer | 2364-2365 | commander | ||
Starfleet Medical | Head of Starfleet Medical | 2365-2366 | |||
USS Enterprise-D | chief medical officer | 2366-2371 | |||
USS Enterprise-E | 2372-2379; 2380-2385 | ||||
Deep Space 9 (II) | 2385 | ||||
USS Enterprise-E | 2385 onward | ||||
USS Pasteur | commanding officer | circa 2380s-2390s | captain |
Appendices[]
Connections[]
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) medical personnel | ||
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Asenzi • Bond • Calloway • Chandra • Crusher • D'Airo • Faraday • Gavar • Gold • Iovino • Itoh • Johnson • Lewis • Marino • Nigata • Ogawa • Pulaski • Selar • Tanaka • Tarses • Temple • Troi | ||
see also: engineering personnel • pilots & flight control personnel • operations personnel • security & tactical personnel • sciences personnel • senior staff • unnamed |
USS Enterprise-E medical & counseling personnel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chief medical officers | B. Crusher • Stevenson | Ship's counselors | D. Troi • T'Lana • Hegol D. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medical personnel | Amavia • T. Harstad • J. Jurot • B. McGlynn • Meldok • A. Mimouni • E. Neil • A. Ogawa • Ojibwa • Po • Rymond • th'Shelas • Tropp • S. Weinstein • Zseizaz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
see also: engineering personnel • operations personnel • pilots & flight control personnel • security & tactical personnel • sciences personnel • senior staff • miscellaneous • unnamed |
Chief medical officers of the starships Enterprise | ||
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Enterprise (NX-01) | Phlox | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) | Poole-April • Boyce • Piper • McCoy • Chapel | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (Kelvin timeline) | Puri • McCoy | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (other alternate realities) | McCoy • Boyce • Carlotti • M'Benga | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) | McCoy | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) (alternate realities) | Carlotti | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) | Metcalfe • Michaels • McCoy • Morell | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) | Casado • Stern • Aristide | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) | Crusher • Pulaski | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) (alternate realities) | Ogawa | |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) | Crusher • Stevenson | |
ISS Enterprise (NX-01) | Phlox | |
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) | Boyce • McCoy • M'Benga | |
ISS Enterprise (ICC-1701-D) | Crusher |
USS Pasteur personnel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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USS Pasteur (23rd century) | Matthew O'Hara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USS Pasteur (NCC-58925) | Nell Chilton • Beverly Picard • unnamed USS Pasteur personnel |
Appearances[]
External links[]
- Beverly Crusher (1ST) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Beverly Crusher (1ST) article at the Star Trek Timelines Wiki.
- Beverly Crusher (1ST) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.